Featured in 10 Array Changing Technologies – 06-2017

Module replacement as a last resort

Repowering: The German Renewable Energy Act (REA) places strict limits on exchanging solar modules to restore profitability to PV plants. Plant operators should contact the network operators in advance to preserve the old feed-in tariff and avoid having to pay back tariffs already received. Proving solar panels are defective can be very complicated.

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Sandra Enkhardt

07 Jun 2017

A fire breaks out at a 2.2 MW solar farm on a former army ammo dump in northern Germany. Is it vandalism? In this case, maybe, but the more likely cause of the fire could well be overheated solar panels. “The solar panels exploded, in the truest sense of the word,” says Kim Madsen, Managing Director …

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